10 penalties are rather imposed for reasons of not involving criminal danger by the offender and therefore the latter neither poses a threat nor is proved corrupt at the community level. Death penalty in the Jamhirya is definitive both substantively and procedurally and is not arbitrarily carried out. Its eventual abolition remains the aspired end of the Jamhiriya society. Pending this aspiration comes true, death sentences will continue to be applicable to those who constitute danger or corruption to the life of the community (Article 8 of the Green Charter).

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